This is the kind of story that warms the cockles, and hopefully makes today's Friday dog blogging feature make some sense. (Dogs are colorblind.)

Ray Girvan brought us the story of Adam Montandon, who has invented a device that lets the color blind "see" what they're missing, by translating the colors into sound.

It goes by the name of the Eyeborg (Adam's an inventor, not a marketer). It takes a picture of the scene with a digital camera, then translates the colors to sound with a computer program.

Best of all, the first one cost under $100 (well 50 pounds) to make.

But here's the really cool part.

The person who inspired the device, Neil Harbisson, is a student in music composition. Now he has abandoned the piano in favor of composing using the Eyeborg.

The composer has become a painter.

I doubt this will teach my old dog any new tricks (he'll sit a moment if you hold a treat above him) but, still, wow.

Have a good weekend, everybody.